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We publish our print issue once a year, usually in May. Submissions to the print issue are currently closed; they'll open up again in July, when we'll also be announcing issue 7's theme and contest.

Latest Issue: dislocate #6

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The 208-page “Contaminated Issue” features work on the subjects of contamination and hybridity, including: creative work by Michael Martone and Jenny Boully; interviews with Jim Shepard, Adam Hochschild, and Adam Zagajewski; art by Jana Flynn and Justine Beth Gartner; and the winning entries from our Contaminated Essay Contest, judged by acclaimed essayist Lia Purpura.

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I. Goddamn Right I Am
The New Nature [p] Joshua Ware & Crystal S. Gibbins
Copper [p] Carrie Meadows
C+, B-, B, F, B, A, C-, A- [f] Chris Gavaler
Wal-Mart Aquariums [p] Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
King of Prussia [f] Jen Adams
Aquatic Mammal Poem [p] Marianne Morris
I Was Over There for a While [p] Tyler Flynn Dorholt
Photographs I Did Not Take [nf] Lindsey Drager
Shooting Pool with Anne Heche the Day After Ellen and Portia's Wedding [p] Julie Marie Wade
The Quiet Charge: An Interview with Jim Shepard J. C. Sirott
II. When We Fail
H.A. [f] Curtis Dawkins
Goodbye, Cruel World [f] David Laskowski
His Chromotherapy's So Accretive [p] Michael Aird
Perusing an online catalog of hipster laptop bags [p] Elizabeth Aoki
Horse Power | Museum [p] Lori Anderson Moseman
Questioning Celan [p] George Moore
The Art of Moral History: An Interview with Adam Hochschild J. Lee Morsell
III. I Am a Rider on the Bus
from not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them [nf] Jenny Boully
Tiny or, Time Travel and the Endless Charm of Dinosaurs [p] Jason Baker
Noises [p], Historical fragment/3 [p], Historical fragment (present tense) [p] Rachel M. Harris
Black Apples [f] Lucas Church
The Stocking Cap [p] George A. Higgins
IV. Hoping to Appear
The Sacred Breadbox [f], The Broth Never Varies [f] Greg Bachar
Thank You For Calling [f] Walter B. Levis
Marc Jacobs Left Reeling Due To The Theft Of His Inner Child [p], Bradford Gray Telford Proffers Many Red Group Tongues [p] Bradford Gray Telford
Impermanence: Or Why I Can't Stop Googling Myself [f] Robert Anthony Siegel
Hunter of Ecstatic Moments: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski Colleen Coyne & Molly Sutton Kiefer
V. The Contaminated Essay Contest, judged by Lia Purpura
Reticulation Lehua M. Taitano
Pratincole Josh Garrett-Davis
Air Hunger Katie Jean Shinkle
Tidewater Nick Neely
C:\run iliad.exe Brian Oliu
Coda: Alone After an Interview
Sigmund Freud, Alone After an Interview, Dreams of Questions Michael Martone
Artwork
Interior Art Justine Beth Gartner
Cover Art: "Upheaval, Eroded Fold, the Work of Ice" Jana Flynn

Recent Articles

  • dislocate: a community reading
    Editor

    dislocate literary journal is happy to announce its end-of-semester community reading taking place this Thursday, May 19, from 7-10PM at The Carleton Artist Lofts' Community Room in St. Paul. Find out who'll be there and what embarrassing things our staff will be doing after the jump.

    [read]5.17.11
  • Past Contributors: We'd Love to Hear from You!
    Editor

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    [read]3.15.11

Recent Columns

  • Air Conditioning, dislocated // David LeGault
    Editor

    I write this while sitting underneath a small, window air conditioner, one that barely cools the space around me, not to mention the entire room. Outside, the temperature clocks in at 91 degrees with humidity somewhere between 70 and 80 percent, the heat index somewhere in the triple digits, completely obscene.

    [read]9.01.10
  • Macondos // J. Lee Morsell
    Editor

    I'm visiting my hometown in rural northern California, and as I write this I'm sitting on an ocean bluff in fog so thick I can't see the water. I am told that this particular bluff is home to the southernmost individual Sitka spruce on the west coast, but the tree is allegedly nestled in a hidden rocky crevice and I haven't located it yet. The fog doesn't help, of course.

    [read]8.24.10

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